Re: "The Player", a case for an independent Flash Player

2015-02-17 Thread Tom Chiverton
On 17/01/15 23:46, Stephane Beladaci wrote: I am preparing to make a case for the development of a new independent Flash Player for desktop and mobile browsers. I Did you contact the team at Mozilla working on this ? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/16/mozillas_flashkiller_shumay_appears_in_

Re: "The Player", a case for an independent Flash Player

2015-02-17 Thread flex
The question though I have is all of this talk about the security issues with Flash, wouldn't that still apply to a Mozilla version too? I get the sense that it only matters if things are insecure if they are some "hated" proprietary technology like Flash. I think that site is probably a good ex

Re: "The Player", a case for an independent Flash Player

2015-02-17 Thread Tom Chiverton
I think The Register's angle is the Adobe implementation of the Flash runtime is bad and full of security issues. In theory Shumay runs in the JavaScript sandbox, so inherits all the protections and 'many eyes' of previous work on securing it. When was the last time there was a off-by-one arbit

Re: "The Player", a case for an independent Flash Player

2015-02-17 Thread flex
That's probably true but what I'm wondering though is does this actually help right? So if Mozilla is then maintaining the code then it's dependent on them to fix any security flaws in terms of their own release cycle for fixes. Plus the ability of the implementation is again dependent on whatev

Re: "The Player", a case for an independent Flash Player

2015-02-17 Thread Tom Chiverton
On 17/02/15 15:49, f...@dfguy.us wrote: No one seems to care about all the other proprietary runtimes out there, or Apple's closed environment, or Android or anything else being closed in varying forms, or that whole Mozilla DRM plugin or etc. I do ! It's why organisations like GNU, EFF, Free

Re: "The Player", a case for an independent Flash Player

2015-02-17 Thread flex
:) ya I know, I'm just saying Flash always seems to get extra scrutinized unfairly when it shouldn't really matter. -Original Message- From: Tom Chiverton To: dev@flex.apache.org Sent: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:13 AM Subject: Re: "The Player", a case for an independent Flash Player On 17/02

AW: AW: Allmost finished fixing the FlexPMD build

2015-02-17 Thread Christofer Dutz
Sorry to say this, but you won't succeed with this :-( The fork FlexPMD was based on is insanely out of date. Thats why I stopped my work on getting the old build to fly, but invested some time on the original PMD project. I made this accept languages as a plugin the version 5.2 (I think) is now

Re: [Discussion] FLEX-34623 Russian translation

2015-02-17 Thread piotrz
Hi Alex, Sorry for the delay. This two files has been changed since our release and before the release: installer\src\properties\ru_RU.properties installer\src\properties\pl_PL.properties Piotr - Apache Flex PMC piotrzarzyck...@gmail.com -- View this message in context: http://apache-f